I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone.

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are.

Childhood lasts all through life.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.